Tai Ahom Yuba Parishad, Assam demands tribal status, autonomous council for Ahom community

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LAKHIMPUR: Tai Ahom Yuba Parishad, Assam (TAYPA) will resort to intensified stir in the upcoming days in order to demand tribal status for the Ahom community.

The youth organization of the community took the decision on Sunday in an extended executive committee meeting held in Lakhimpur. The meeting was organized at the Tai Ahom Kala-Kristi Bikash Kendra located in North Lakhimpur town. It was chaired by TAYPA central committee working president Bhrigu Hatimuriya while the objective of the event was explained by joint secretary Diganta Tamuli. The office bearers and the executive members of a total of twenty district bodies, subdivisional bodies of the TAYPA participated in the meeting.

The working president and the joint secretary of the organization informed that in the meeting the issue of alleged betrayal by the governments at the Centre and in the State regarding the grant of tribal status and autonomous council to the Ahom community were discussed in details with due importance. Then the meeting adopted resolution to initiate a serial stir to demand the tribal status and autonomous council for the community at the earliest. Resolution was also taken to unite the Ahom community people of all spheres including the intellectual figures in this connection. The organization decided to demonstrate the protest programmes in Dispur and New Delhi simultaneously.

In the meeting, TAYPA central committee advisers Nani Kumar Gogoi, Paban Hundique, joint secretary Dipjyoti Duworah, assistant general secretary Nabajyoti Baruah, organizing secretary Dipul Tamuli Phukan delivered elaborated speeches on the discussed topics in the meeting. TAYPA Lakhimpur district committee, led by Sanib Konwar and secretary Pranjal Konwar accorded warm felicitations to the dignitaries of the organization.

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